Armenian leadership honors memory of Armenian Genocide victims 

ArmInfo.The highest political leadership of Armenia honored the memory of the victims of the  Armenian Genocide, the 110th anniversary of which is celebrated today, April 24.

The mourning ceremony was attended by RA Prime Minister Nikol  Pashinyan, RA President Vahagn Khachaturyan, Speaker of the  Parliament Alen Simonyan, ministers, members of the government,  diplomats accredited in the country. Wreaths were laid on their  behalf.

Today, April 24, 2025, the Armenian people celebrate a mournful date  - the 110th anniversary of the first genocide in the history of  mankind. On April 24, 1915, more than two hundred representatives of  the Armenian intelligentsia - poets, musicians, publicists, editors,  lawyers, doctors, deputies were arrested in Constantinople by order  of the Turkish authorities. All of them were sent into exile and  brutally killed. The extermination of the Armenian intelligentsia was  part of a systematic, diabolical plan to destroy the Armenian people  in their homeland. A total of 1.5 million Armenians were  exterminated, and hundreds of thousands were deported. This was the  first genocide of the 20th century, planned and carried out by the  state. 

On April 24, 1965, demonstrations were organized in Soviet Armenia  demanding recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Thus, the wall of  silence that had been created around this issue during the Soviet era  was destroyed. It should be noted, however, that recently the issue  of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide has fallen out  of the priority areas of the foreign policy agenda of the Armenian  authorities, which has caused a sharply negative reaction from the  opposition, which has introduced a draft law on criminalizing the  denial of the Armenian Genocide. The fact of the Armenian Genocide is  recognized by many countries of the world and international  organizations, including the USA, Russia, France, Canada, Cyprus,  Belgium, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, etc.,  as well as the European Parliament and the World Council of Churches.